Saturday, December 23, 2017

The workmen are off until after Christmas - so things were considerately quieter today.

They did a lot cleaning up while they were waiting on the inspectors to come out yesterday.

I appreciate that the contractor doesn't waste a lot of lumber. The weather was so nice these past few days - they got a lot done. Looking forward to spending time out here next summer.

This morning while I was doing laundry I finished sewing on the borders.

It is 88 by 88". I think I will have enough of the blue of inner border to use for the binding.

And I will use one of the blue backings that I bought for Daniel and Ben's quilt,

Love my flocked tree - during the daytime hours. The star topper that we have used on the tree for over fifty years (John picked it out) - wouldn't light this year ( we didn't test it before we put it on - it always amazed me that it lasted so many years). Marcia and Jim have it at their house - they have rewired it and will bring it back on Christmas Day.

John and Gordon Christmas 1961.

I love to think that they are together celebrating their fourth Christmas in Heaven.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

When I started this quilt in Feb. 2016, it was just to make a blue and white quilt.

My idea of how it was going to be finished changed a couple of times. My original plan was to merge the two block sizes within the body of the quilt. A few months ago, I decided to enlarge the quilt and use the larger blocks in the center and use the smaller blocks in the border.

MY PLAN

Make more blocks so that the center would measure 75 by 75"

Add a 2.5" accent border around the center

Make enough smaller blocks to fit the now 80 by 80" center.

THE PROBLEM

I think the 2.5" border looks too heavy.

This is a 2" border - looks better

Light border - UGH!

Thought about using a smaller blue and a light together to make the 2.5 " border which is not too bad.

This is how the 2.5" border looks

I think this will be my solution so that I can use the smaller width border and my smaller blocks will fit without adding any spacer pieces.

I finished sewing the center together this afternoon.

A couple of friends and myself took our intern out to lunch after church today.

Our congregation members take turns feeding our intern Sunday Lunch. That gives him/her a way to become accquainted with us and us him. He meets with our pastor in the afternoon and then participates in the children's and youth activities before he returns to Durham.

We went to Chiles and had fajitas - so I will not be needing anything much to eat this evening.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

One of my favorite pictures from the wedding is this informal one of the girls and grand daughters!

The grandsons - wow I look pretty short!

Back in February, S and I started making blocks from this pattern by Bonnie Hunter, called Dawn's Early Light in one of the 100 quit blocks magazines. S has hers finished. I finished 64 blocks for the quilt center a couple of weeks ago. There are so many ways this can be set.

I loved this one but went with the one below.

Good grief - I had one corner wrong and had to take out several blocks.

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A mother to 5, grandmother to 10. We live just outside a small town in NC and enjoy spending time at our place at Lake Gaston on the NC/VA border. We are active members of WUMC and feel blessed to have a wonderful church family.